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Review Chained Echoes (Switch) - One Of The Very Best RPGs Of The Year
Breaking the chains of mediocrity
About seven years ago, a solo indie developer named Matthias Linda began working on an idea he had for a new RPG, itself likely the product of many years of producing fan games based on his genre favorites in RPG Maker. After a successful Kickstarter in 2019 and who knows how many hours of painstaking iteration,...
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Thursday11th Jun 2026
News Chained Echoes Is Finally Getting Its Physical Release, After Last Attempt Ended In A Lawsuit
Super Rare to the rescue
Earlier this year, Chained Echoes developer Matthias Linda announced that he was filing a lawsuit against distributor First Press Games after a two-year wait for his promised physical release. Well, good news! The dev has partnered with a new company, and the physical launch is back on track. Super Rare Games has today...
Wednesday11th Mar 2026
News Chained Echoes Dev Is Filing A Lawsuit Against Physical Distributor
"This decision wasn’t easy"
Physical distributor First Press Games doesn't exactly have the most glowing of reputations these days. One quick Google search will bring up a host of results delving into whether or not the company is effectively scamming its customers. Well, it seems like Chained Echoes developer Matthias Linda has had enough...
Thursday26th Jun 2025
News Chained Echoes 'Ashes Of Elrant' DLC Arrives On Switch In August
Link them up
2022's excellent indie RPG Chained Echoes' DLC, 'Ashes of Elrant', is coming to Switch on 7th August 2025. After being announced earlier this year, publisher Deck13 and developer Umami Tiger today shared a brand new trailer for the story-based DLC today on Steam
Monday9th Dec 2024
News Indie RPG Hit 'Chained Echoes' Announces Ashes Of Elrant DLC
Includes new areas, a new playable character, and fishing!
Two years after the hit indie RPG Chained Echoes released, developer Matthias Linda — now having formed Umami Tiger, his new development studio — has announced Ashes of Elrant, an expansive new DLC package that launches in Q2 2025. This story DLC will take place right before the final...
Monday2nd Jan 2023
Feature Mecha And Memories - How 16-Bit Nostalgia Influenced SNES-Style JRPG 'Chained Echoes'
"Xenoblade Chronicles 3 nearly caused a delay"
A world where dragons exist and people pilot mechs? Not the most common of combinations — despite both elements often appearing in RPGs frequently over the years — but for SNES and PS1-inspired JRPG Chained Echoes, this is completely the norm. Revealed back in 2019, the game blasted through its...
Thursday29th Dec 2022
Soapbox This SNES-Style RPG Is The Biggest And Best Surprise Of 2022
Links to the past
Soapbox features enable our individual writers and contributors to voice their opinions on hot topics and random stuff they've been chewing over. And with Chained Echoes finally releasing in December, Alana is begging you to consider it as a GOTY candidate despite its late release... I'm about two-thirds of the way through...
Tuesday8th Nov 2022
News SNES-Style Mech-Piloting JRPG 'Chained Echoes' Touches Down On Switch In December
Triggered
If you're a fan of 16-bit RPGs in the Chrono Trigger mould, you've probably been keeping an eye on Matthias Linda's upcoming Chained Echoes, a gorgeous-looking homage to that style of top-down RPG experience. Set in a world of mechs and dragons, it's been on our radars for a while, and it's finally got a release date: 8th December. A new...
Monday25th Apr 2022
News Chained Echoes Lets You Pilot Mechs In A World Of Dragons, And It's Coming To Switch This Year
A chain to the past
The gorgeous pixel 16-bit RPG Chained Echoes finally has a release window! Developed by Matthias Linda and published by Deck13, who was responsible for bringing us the fantastic action RPG CrossCode, the game more than doubled its Kickstarter goal back in 2019, and one of the stretch goals included
